constituents https://canadianriley.com Canadian Riley From Parliament to You Independent Political News Blog Sun, 04 Jun 2023 02:42:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://i0.wp.com/canadianriley.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-canadian-riley.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 constituents https://canadianriley.com 32 32 214541444 Are Passport Delays a Result of Staff Still Working from Home and Staff Shortages Due to Vaccine Mandates? https://canadianriley.com/are-passport-delays-a-result-of-staff-still-working-from-home-and-staff-shortages-due-to-vaccine-mandates/ https://canadianriley.com/are-passport-delays-a-result-of-staff-still-working-from-home-and-staff-shortages-due-to-vaccine-mandates/?noamp=mobile#respond Tue, 21 Jun 2022 18:54:59 +0000 https://canadianriley.com/?p=748 Unprecedented demand for Canadian passports has led to delays in processing times, putting eager travelers in limbo ahead of the summer travel season.

According to the federal government, a fraction of the passports that are normally filed in a year were filed over two years of COVID-19, so during the pandemic, passport staff were given other work. Now, Service Canada is trying to shift that workload elsewhere, hire more staff and open more access points, but has no idea when the backlogs will be resolved.

So what’s behind all of the passport delays?

According to Blacklock’s Reporter many of Service Canada’s employees are still working from home:
“Of 26,136 Service Canada’s employees that handles passport applications, a total 18,362 are working from home.”

Passport offices have been experiencing staffing shortages.

According to Blacklock’s Reporter the agency that runs passport offices suspended hundreds of staff under vaccinate mandates.

Passport Delays Are So Bad The Provincial Police are Having to Clean Up The Liberal Federal Government’s Mess

Passport Delays Are So Bad Even the Bloc are Expressing Their Concern to the Liberals in the HOC. The Federal fiasco is becoming dangerous. At this point, the police have had to intervene in lineups at passport offices, and they’re not just managing people’s anger. They’re answering questions on behalf of federal employees.

“The Federal fiasco is becoming dangerous. At this point, the police have had to intervene in lineups at passport offices.”

“To get a passport, people have to bring their tent and spend the night on the sidewalk that’s happening here in Canada, a G7 country.”

 

Citizens spent the weekend seeing for themselves that no one from the federal government was there at work to help.

“Citizens I camped out all weekend in front of Service Canada offices to try to get a passport. In spite of the wind and the rain, they stayed outside all weekend trying to access this service.”

]]> https://canadianriley.com/are-passport-delays-a-result-of-staff-still-working-from-home-and-staff-shortages-due-to-vaccine-mandates/feed/ 0 748 Borders Call on Trudeau to Drop ArriveCan App to Stop Pushing Tourists Away https://canadianriley.com/borders-call-on-trudeau-to-drop-arrivecan-app-to-stop-pushing-tourists-away/ https://canadianriley.com/borders-call-on-trudeau-to-drop-arrivecan-app-to-stop-pushing-tourists-away/?noamp=mobile#respond Sat, 18 Jun 2022 03:00:22 +0000 https://canadianriley.com/?p=648 Starting on June 20, domestic and outbound international travellers no longer have to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19 in order to enter Canada. However, inbound travellers will still need to enter their health information, quarantine plan and proof of vaccination through the ArriveCAN app.

The ArriveCAN app was introduced during the pandemic to allow travellers to report their trips and vaccination status and COVID-19-related health information before arriving in Canada.

The calls to drop the app come a day after the federal government announced that it is easing a number of restrictions introduced during the pandemic. It did not announce it was eliminating the ArriveCAN app.

A group of mayors and businesses in communities along the Canada-U.S. border is calling on the federal government to end the ArriveCAN app, saying it is discouraging Americans from visiting and shopping in Canada.

Canadian and American border cities, urged that keeping the ArriveCAN app will have a “long lasting” impact on the country’s tourism sector.

What’s happening right now is Americans are showing up in the minivan with their family at the border with no knowledge of the ArriveCAN app. There’s a lineup of cars behind them. They can’t get into the country.

Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Transport Minister Omar Alghabra gave no indication that the federal government is considering scrapping the ArriveCan app for travellers.

The arrive can app is increasingly unnecessary, and it’s hopelessly broken.

“People tried to contact the CBSA to fix the issue that CBSA told them that they didn’t offer support relating to reentering Canada.  The arrive can app is increasingly unnecessary, and it’s hopelessly broken.”

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for F-Bomb Toward Woman Questioning Vaccine Mandates in House of Commons. Liberal MP Adam van Koeverden apologized “I responded in an unacceptable way to a message on social media. And for that I deeply regret it. I want to apologize to the person that I offended and anybody else that I let down. I realized that the past two years have been really difficult for a lot of people. But my conduct is unacceptable. We have an obligation to disagree without being disagreeable. And in that regard, I failed.”

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